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Kurikindi, Amazon Shaman at Womad 2019

"In the rainforest we can feel what has happened with the time", Kurikindi explained, "… sometimes summer feels like winter and winter feels like summer, something is happening to the planet." Kurikindi

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A Movement of Movements for the October Rebellion

Queries and Contact: alliance@rebellion.earth Memorandum of Understanding for interested groups Extinction Rebellion has introduced a Movement of Movements strategy as a crucial part of the International Rebellion in October and beyond. This approach will see a range of groups – often putting aside their differences – to take to the streets together…

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The Deliberate Rebellion

In the UK, Extinction Rebellion’s third demand is that government must create and be led by the decisions of a citizens’ assembly on climate and ecological justice.

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Extinction Rebellion meet with the BBC

Good news! Begun in December 2018 XR’s actions calling on the BBC to “Tell the Truth” about the climate crisis have achieved an initial positive outcome. In July 2019 Sir Tony Hall (Director General of the BBC) met with XR’s Jon, Gail, Donnachadh, Daze and Ronan. Jon remarked, “… I feel very encouraged by this…

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Episode 5 – Regenerative Culture, Joanna Macy

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Podomatic Live on all platforms NOW In this episode, the Extinction Rebellion Podcast explores regenerative culture. What is it, and how can it be of use to rebels worldwide? Joanna Macy, PhD is a teacher and writer on issues of environmental justice, Deep Ecology, and…

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Newsletter 28 – Murder in the Amazon

Rebels all over the world watch heartbroken as fires devastate the Amazon. Known to many as ‘the lungs of the Earth’, the rainforest is a vital organ of our living planet whose health hangs in the balance. The record-breaking fires are casting a shadow on over half the area of Brazil and…

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History Corner – Peterloo

August 16th saw the 200th anniversary of the notorious Peterloo Massacre of 1819 in which mounted cavalry charged into a peaceful crowd of 60,000-80,000 people in Manchester, killing 11-15 and wounding up to 700. They had assembled to demand parliamentary reform and to protest against the poverty and inequality afflicting the general…

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